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Grevelinge / Gravelinga, urbs maritima.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Lille.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2010
Arras
Nice bird's-eye plan of the city of Arras. Based on Braun & Hogenberg's 1572 plan, the map is filled with detail of the well-laid out city and the surrounding country...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $100
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![[Blâmont] - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.](/uploads/cache/32215-250x250.jpg)
[Blâmont] - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.
Early bird's-eye of Blâmont in the Lorraine region from the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologn...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575-1612
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Othones Saxones Imperatories.
Othones Saxones Imperatories is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the rulers of Saxony. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view or map of...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
Veteres Duces Lotharingiae.
Veteres Duces Lotharingiae is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the Ducal House of Lorraine. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view of t...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Blesenses Comites.
Blesenses Comites is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the rulers of Blois. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view of the town of Blois....
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Comites ac Duces Wirtembergici.
\\\"Comites ac Duces Wirtembergici\\\" is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the Counts & Dukes of Wurttemberg. At the bottom i...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Duijkkerken Praecipus Totius Flandriae.
Beautiful bird's eye-view plan of the town of Duinkerken, France on the Belgian border. From Ludovico Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands 'Beschrijvinghe Van A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $77
Sold in 2019
Philippus Strossy Italianischer Captein. . . Plate 26.
Early print from the series about the " Eighty-Years War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know of approximately four hundred engravings by ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1619
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
In disser zusammen treffung wirdt es pferdt Des Princen von Conde geschossen zu Erde. . . Plate 64.
Early print showing the killing of the horse of Henri de Bourbon Prince of Condé on 13 March 1619.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the i...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1619
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Des Kunigs vnd der Fursten regiment, Thundt hie eintreffen gar behendt . . Plate 74.
Early print showing the battle of the Rhone at Le Pouzin (Ardèche department).Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" or the independence war of Ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1620
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Henricus IIII. D. G. Galliae Et Navarrae Rex Christian.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry IV of France.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Include...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2010
Henricus Lotharingius, Dux Guisius Franciae Par. Etc.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 159...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2011
Carolus Audax D. G. Dux Burgundiae Brab. etc. Com. Hann. Holl. Zelan. etc.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
Lodovicus XIII. D. G. Galliae Et Navarrae Rex Christianiss.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Louis XIII of France.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Inclu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2011
Henricus Lotharingius, Dux Guisius Franciae Par. Etc.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 159...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
Carolus Audax D. G. Dux Burgundiae Brab. etc. Com. Hann. Holl. Zelan. etc.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Charles, Duke of Burgundy. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2023
Carolus Dux Borbonius Praefectus Militiae Caesaris Caroli. V.
The engraving depicts a half length oval bust portrait in armor of "Carolus Dux Borbonius", signed lower right corner N. de Cleck". Nicolaes de Clerck (de ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2017
Salin die Namhaffte Stadt in Burgund Nach Ihrer Figur und Gelegenheit Abgemalet.
A woodcut of Salin, in France by Sebastian Münster. Salin-les-Bains in the Jura, the walled city with fortifications and the castle Belim. From his famous Cosmographia, ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2023
Abriss der Statt und Cittadelle Perpignia sampt dem Stat der Kön. Armee und Derselben Circumvallation.
A fine print that shows a plan of the walled city of Perpignan, in France, and its star shaped fortress surrounded by outer fortifications and troop formations. In the f...
Place & Date: Basel, 1633
Selling price: $89
Sold in 2019
St Tropez.
Early view of St. Tropez showing the fortifications. The harbour with several sailing ships. Published by Nicolas Tassin in "Les Plans et Profilz de toutes principal...
Place & Date: Paris, c1634
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2013
Civitatis avenionis omnimq viarum et aedifciorum eius perfecta delineatio.
Early plan of Avignon by Mathias Merian.
Place & Date: Paris, 1635
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2012
Moyenvic Lorraine, 1631
A striking and highly decorative, unusual copper engraved panoramic view of Moyenvic on the Sealle River in the region of Lorraine in France.With fortifications surroundi...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1635
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
(Title page) Decretales D. Gregorii Papæ IX. Suæ integritati una cum glossis restitutæ.
Decorative title page from "Corpus iuris canonici). Decretum Gratiani. Emendatum et notationibus illustratum. Una cum glossis Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max. iussu ed. Ad ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1635
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Reims en Champagne.
Striking birdseye view of Reims in Champagne, from Merian's “Neuwe Archontologica Cosmica”, published in 1638. It shows the detailed town plan of Reims and Champagne,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
La Ville de Fovgers.
Charming view of Fougères, in Brittany.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $25
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Troye
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Troye. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Troye is shown in the backg...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2014
Metz
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Metz. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Metz is shown in the backgro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2014
Orleans
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Orleans. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Orleans is shown in the b...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Reims
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Reims. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Reims is shown in the backg...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Profil de la Ville Archiepiscopal de Tours Appellee Vulgairement le Jardin de la France, 1643.
Hand-colored copperplate engraving featuring a panoramic view of Tours engraved by the famous master engraver, Hugues Picart (1587-1662). This view is extremely detailed ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2018
Montpelier.
Fine copper engraving, a bird’s eye view edited by Matthaus Merian, in 1646, in his "Neue Archontologia Cosmica". Matthäus Merian der Ältere (1593–165...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
Noyon.
Fine copper engraving, a bird’s eye view, edited by Merian Matthäus, in 1646, in his "Neue Archontologia Cosmica". Matthäus Merian der Ältere (1593–1...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2019
Perpignan Capitale de Roussillon.
Panoramic view of Perpignan etched by Romeijn de Hooghe and published by Sebastien de Pontault de Beaulieu (1612-1674). The outer border is printed from a different plate...
Place & Date: Paris, 1646
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Cales. // Calais. // Duynkerke.
Fine unusual 1646 Merian copper engraved plate including a panoramic view of Calais, France, aerial plan of Calais, with its fortifications and the surrounding area, &a...
Place & Date: Zurich, 1646
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2023
St Malo.
Nice town-plan of St. Malo from Tassin's desirable and scarce Atlas "Cartes generales de toutes les Provinces de France et d'Espaigne..." published by Berey in ...
Place & Date: Paris, Berey, 1648
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2010
La Rochelle.
Superbly engraved of La Rochelle by Merian. The birds-eye view shows the city with its buildings, city walls, the harbour with sailing ships and shipbuilders, and the su...
Place & Date: Paris, 1649
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Reims en Champagne.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Rheims. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $20
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Massilia - Marseille.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Marseille. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $145
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Avignon.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Avignon.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Parys.
Superb panorama of Paris by Merian. Paris is shown from Parc des Buttes-Chaumont looking towards the south west. The foreground includes a back-view self-portrait of the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1650
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
La Rochelle.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of La Rochelle. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom, a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Veuë et Perspective d'une partie des Ville et Chasteau d'Avignon.
Eye-bird view of castle at Avignon and part of the town. Etching by Israel Silvestre called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Paris Wie Solche A.° 1620. im Weffen geftanden.
Bird's eye view of Paris presenting the town's coat of arms on the upper left corner and the coat of arms of France on the upper right corner.
Place & Date: Francfort-sur-le-main, 1655
Selling price: $475
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Le Mont Valerien. Autrement dit-Le Calvaire. 2 lieus de Paris.
A view of the Mount Valerien in the Paris vicinities. Very well engraved with excellent detail. Plan for the Mont Valérien Calvary near Paris. As early as the 15th centu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1655
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
Paris Wie Solche A.° 1620. im Weffen geftanden.
Decorative and important town-plan of Paris with coats of arms of the city.
Place & Date: Frankfort, 1655
Selling price: $1400
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Wahrhaffte Abbildung der Vesten Statt Rochelle, mit Ihren Fortificationen, und dem Königl. Läger und Schantzen Anno 1627. Obsidio Rupellae.
Decorative plan of the siege of 1627 of the town of La Rochelle.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1656
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Lutetia Parisiorum Vulgo PARIS.
First state of this fine town-plan of Paris published in Joannes Janssonius Town book "Theatrum exhibens celebriores Galliae et Helvetiae urbes". This plan deri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1657
Selling price: $1400
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Avignon.
This rare bird's-eye plan depicts Avignon situated on both banks of the Sorgue River. A key locating 45 important sites is enclosed in the decorative cartouche at bottom ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2011
Avignon.
This rare bird's-eye plan depicts Avignon situated on both banks of the Sorgue River. A key locating 45 important sites is enclosed in the decorative cartouche at bottom ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Vienne.
Striking view of the town and harbor of Vienne, France. Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) was a Swiss engraver and one of the most prolific engraver's of town views in the 17t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1660
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2015
La Place de Loüis le grand ou des conquestes.
View of "La Place de Loüis le grand ou des conquestes" in Paris, published by I. Mariette. Showing the statue of Louis XIV in the center.
Place & Date: Paris, 1660
Selling price: $150
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St. Tropez.
An early copper engraved plan of Saint-Tropez. Shows a few buildings, the layout of the streets, the city walls, and the harbour with sailing ships.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca 1660
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
Paris.
Extremely rare plan of Paris prepared by Jean Sauvé. Jean Sauvé used the earlier plans of Merian, Tavernier, Jollain, Bertrant, Huart and Lagniet. However this edition ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1662
Selling price: $2400
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Avenio Vulgo Avignon.
A beautifully engraved and richly decorated town-plan of Avignon. With a key (1-56) around the plan referring to the principal places of interest in the town. From "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2012
Course de Festes et Disposition des Cinq Quadrilles...
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
Siege de La Rochelle.
Rare battle plan of the seaport town of LA ROCHELLE illustrating the Siege of La Rochelle between the French Calvinist Huguenots with support of the English and the Catho...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1672
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Landrecy, Henault .
Striking and highly detailed, fine unusual 1674 Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu's panoramic view of Landrecies, France, with its buildings, churches, town walls and surr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1674
Selling price: $34
Sold in 2020
Veüe du Chasteau de Fontainebleau, du costé du Jardin.
Two joined sheets with a landscape with a deer hunting scene in the foreground, beyond cavalry troops, and the gardens and palace of Fontainebleau in the distance.Engrave...
Place & Date: Paris, 1674
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
![S. Laurens in Franckr. [France].](/uploads/cache/13752-250x250.jpg)
S. Laurens in Franckr. [France].
A very nice view of the town of Laurens in Alsace, with a church. On the foreground, an elephant and a rhinoceros are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
![S. Laurens in Franckr. [France].](/uploads/cache/13740-250x250.jpg)
S. Laurens in Franckr. [France].
A very nice view of a church. On the foreground, an elephant and a rhinoceros are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
![S. Victor in Franckr. [The Abbey of St. Victor near Paris.].](/uploads/cache/13751-250x250.jpg)
S. Victor in Franckr. [The Abbey of St. Victor near Paris.].
A lovely view of the Abbey of St. Victor near Paris. In the foreground, a night watchman is depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet Daniel...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1623-1678
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Lyon.
Very rare panoramic view of the town of Lyon. Underneath an historical description of the town in French and Latin. In top a inset map of the region.
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Le Chateau D'Ancy-Le Franc.
Fine hand-colored city view from the book "VIEWS OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES OF VERSAILLES" published in Paris by Nicolas Langois in about 1680. The artist was...
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2015
L'Hopital de St. Louis.
Fine hand-colored city view from the book "VIEWS OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES OF VERSAILLES" published in Paris by Nicolas Langois in about 1680. The artist was...
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Les Eaux et les Environs de Chauille.
Fine hand-colored city view from the book "VIEWS OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES OF VERSAILLES" published in Paris by Nicolas Langois in about 1680. The artist was...
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Bergue Ste. Vinox.
An interesting city map of Bergues, France by Bouttats in 1690. Featuring an aerial plan with its fortifications and surrounding landscape. A military-themed scene and a ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1680
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2019
Arrivée du roi devant Douai qu'il fait investir par sa cavalerie
Showing the arrival of Louis XIV arriving near Douai. This fine engraving shows a landscape with, in the foreground, men loading donkeys in the foreground, beyond at left...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1680
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
(Annecy) Annessium vulgo Annessy.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Annecy, decorated with the coat of arms of the Duchy of Savoy carried by angels. In bottom numbered key.From &quo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
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Moustiers. [Moûtiers]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Moûtiers, decorated with the coat of arms of the Duchy of Savoy hold by angels. In bottom lettered key.From &quo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
![Abbaye d'Hautecombe. [Hautecombe Abbey]](/uploads/cache/45420-250x250.jpg)
Abbaye d'Hautecombe. [Hautecombe Abbey]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the Hautecombe Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Le Grand Chemin Royal de la Crote.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of Le Grand Chemin Royal de la Crote. In bottom a lettered key.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Johannes de Ram ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Le Grand Chemin Royal de la Crote.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of Le Grand Chemin Royal de la Crote. In bottom a lettered key.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Johannes de Ram ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
![Moustiers. [Moûtiers]](/uploads/cache/45507-250x250.jpg)
Moustiers. [Moûtiers]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Moûtiers, decorated with the coat of arms of the Duchy of Savoy hold by angels. In bottom lettered key.From &quo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Oppidi Saurgii et viae Regiae a Carolo Emanuele I.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Saorge, located in Alpes Maritimes in France.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Johannes de Ram.Joa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Villarium Oppidu.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Villar sur Var, located in near from Nice.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Johannes de Ram.Joan B...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Hospitelum.
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Sospel, located in near from Nice and Monaco.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Johannes de Ram.Joa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2022
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Rupes Allobrogum vulgo La Roche.. [La Roche]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city. From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Engraved by Conraet Decker.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-boo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Civitas Sancti Joannis Maurianensis. (Saint Jean de Maurienne)
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the town of Saint Jean de Maurienne in the Savoy region of the French Alps. From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ". Joan Blaeu p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020